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...Comes." By afternoon the suggestions of hard feelings were growing firm. Half a dozen of Mansfield's deputies were beaten and carried out of town. When the polls closed at 4, a tense throng milled outside the voting place in the office of the Athens Water Co. to await the count. Suddenly two G.I. watchers burst through the shattering plate glass door, closely followed by a deputy wildly waving a pistol. A woman in the crowd screamed: "Oh God, here it comes...
...longer. They want your right arm for a piece of ham these days." With a deft stroke of his pen he marked up ham and egg sandwiches from 35 to a tentative 40 cents. "All but a few sandwiches will stay the same," he continued, adding that he would await further moves by his competitors. Normally a power behind the scenes, Sarantos had appeared during the current crisis in Washington to take personal command of his forces...
...AWARE THAT DEATH WAS CERTAIN, AND NOT WANTING ANY KNOWLEDGE TO DIE WITH HIM, SLOTIN RETURNED THE NEXT DAY TO THE LABORATORY AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO THE STAFF WHICH HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTING IN ASSEMBLY. NOT UNTIL THE END OF THE DAY DID HE GO TO THE HOSPITAL TO AWAIT...
...Palau. The U.S. does not need the numberless neighboring islands, with tens of thousands of backward, simple natives, but has announced no policy for their trusteeship or control-because the military and civilian departments within the Government are fighting with each other. Final disposition of the islands must await the signing of a peace treaty-and the Russians are already warming up a propaganda campaign against "U.S. imperialism...
None of the audience saw the bird when it left the stage of the Colonial, so that several Poonmen who rushed up several minutes later were unable to trace their pet. Baffled, they returned to their lair to await further developments...